United States v. Lamar Treas-Wilson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that crime scene photographs, though graphic, were relevant to determination of defendant’s intent or state of mind
• stating that “[i]n Opper, the Court abandoned the independent proof requirement, instead requiring only that the evidence tend to establish the trustworthiness of the confession”
• admitting a photograph of a “stab wound below the victim’s right ear and the deep incision across his neck”
• “The trustworthiness requirement ... extends only to the corpus delicti, not the identity of the accused.” (emphasis added; citation and footnote omitted)
• “[T]he circumstances surrounding [the victim]’s death support the jury’s determination that [the defendant] killed with premeditation.”
• precise and fatal injury severing the esophagus, trachea and large veins of the neck

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).